Attachment C - Achieve Bio Jerome A. DeHerrera

Achieve Law Group, LLC 146 West 11th Avenue Denver, CO 80204 P: (303) 465-1000 F: (303) 484-7678 Achievelawgroup.com

Jerome A. DeHerrera (303) 725-2769 JDH@achievelawgroup.com

Jerome is an attorney and community leader who serves as a general counsel to school districts, charter schools, non-profit companies, and private for-profit companies. He helps his clients meet their day-to-day legal needs as well as navigate their complex, long-term challenges. He advises and helps solve whatever legal issues his clients are facing, including corporate governance, contracts, government relations, human resources, real estate, audits, investigations, civil litigation, and transactions. Jerome strives to provide his clients with excellent service that is efficient and timely. Jerome is also a litigator with extensive trial court and appellate experience. His litigation experience covers a wide range of subject matters including real estate, contracts, nonprofit corporations, construction defects, fraud, civil theft, products liability, employment, environmental law, political law and probate disputes. Jerome has also served as both an internal and outside investigator and hearing officer making findings of fact, conclusions of law, and potential sanction recommendations. Jerome earned a B.A. in Economics with distinction and honors from Colorado College (1997), a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University (2001) and a law degree from Stanford University (2004). He began his legal career at Arnold & Porter where he practiced litigation, political law, and telecommunications law. Jerome then practiced litigation at Davis Graham & Stubbs where he developed an education law practice, representing both higher education and K-12 education clients. Jerome then joined Denver Public schools as Deputy General Counsel and was later promoted to General Counsel. At DPS, he advised the school board, superintendent and senior leaders on all legal matters. He led a team of six deputies, supervised outside counsel, and was responsible for all of DPS’s legal strategy, litigation, contracts, and transactions. He was responsible for overseeing litigation on civil rights, employment disputes, real estate, construction, government investigations, internal investigations, and appeals to the supreme court. During the 2020 redistricting process, Jerome served as General Counsel for the Colorado Congressional Redistricting Commission. Jerome advised the Commission and its eleven members as they navigated the complex legal issues that governed their task of dividing Colorado’s population into eight equal congressional districts that would meet the requirements of Colorado’s Constitution and survive legal challenges. Jerome also advised and assisted the Commission in its litigation before the Colorado Supreme Court. For nineteen years, Jerome has served as pro-bono legal counsel in the Taylor Ranch class action litigation in which he represents the families in San Luis, Colorado who are fighting to restore the land-grant rights given to their ancestors when they settled the San Luis Valley. In 2022, the Colorado Lawyer’s Committee awarded Jerome its Outstanding Sustained Contribution Award for his commitment to his pro-bono clients.

Achieve Law Group, LLC 146 West 11th Avenue Denver, CO 80204 P: (303) 465-1000 F: (303) 484-7678 Achievelawgroup.com

Jerome A. DeHerrera (303) 725-2769 JDH@achievelawgroup.com

Jerome serves on the Colorado Supreme Court Nominating Commission by way of appointment from Governor Polis. By appointment from State Treasurer Dave Young Jerome serves on the Public School Fund Investment Board. Jerome also serves as a Trustee on the Board of Trustees for Colorado College and he is a Director on the Board of Directors of Colorado Legal Services. In 2022, the Colorado Lawyers Committee honored Jerome with its Outstanding Sustained Contribution Award for his 19 years of pro bono service for the Plaintiffs in the Lobato v. Taylor Mexican Land Grant Case. He was twice nominated by the Colorado Lawyer’s Committee for Individual of the Year, and he has been honored as a “Compleat Lawyer” (Law Week 2012), Up and Coming Lawyer (Law Week 2008) and Outstanding New Hispanic Attorney (CHBA 2007).